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In which Gi-hun is accidentally shot after the 6-legged Pentathlon, and In-ho’s priorities crystalize.
(I started writing this after Squid Game Season 2, and have picked it up as a form of therapy post Season 3.)
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In-ho has one chance to convince Gi-hun to join him as his right-hand-man, or else the VIPs want him dead. He agrees.
Because In-ho is right. The rebellion didn't work. It was never going to work. The players are simply too far removed from the people really in charge. Even killing the Front Man would only result in a replacement Front Man. But as the Front Man's protégé, Gi-hun can make a difference. He can do what he can for the players from above, rather than below. He can investigate the gold-masked men. He can scheme.
There's light in the darkness. In-ho helps Gi-hun get Ga-yeong back. He teaches him how to fight, how to survive in this deadly world. Slowly, slowly, they begin to trust each other. (The kissing happens long before the trust.)
Gi-hun uses his new power, undreamt of in his old life, to do what he never did before: think only of others. And the luxury helps, the high-end alcohol helps, but of course he's still tortured by guilt. But at least they're tortured together, and take sanctuary in each other. Gi-hun gets to fight in favor of the players; In-ho gets to not be alone. They both got what they wanted.
Begins immediately following the events of S2.
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11 Jul 2025
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Seong Gi-hun wakes up in a hospital bed — broken, barely breathing, but alive. And waiting for him is Hwang In-ho, former Frontman of the Games, holding a baby in his arms.
There are no masks now. No games. Just two ruined men and a child named in memory of the dead.
But the Games never let go. And when the truth is revealed, there is no forgiveness left.
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In-ho attempts to settle back into his position of Frontman after the events of Gi-hun's attempted rebellion, but he is plagued with a feeling he thought he'd abandoned all those years ago. Guilt.
Having regained his empathy at the expense of Gi-hun's sanity, In-ho now has to watch him return to the games in a broken state. Knowing Gi-hun is in no state to continue going, In-ho realises he may have to compromise his position as Frontman to protect the man he had insisted on breaking.
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This is set after S2, where In-ho finally learns that love is greater than greed.
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What surprised Gi-hun the most, he realized, wasn't that he survived the fall. Against all odds.
What did... Gi-hun, six months after the final game and the hospitalization, turned his head sideways and sighed, the Front Man's — Hwang In-ho's — hair did tickle his nose a little. He didn't have it in his heart to push In-ho away. Not when In-ho was sleeping and making a small noise from his slightly parted lips.
What surprised Gi-hun the most was this new life he now shared with the Front Man.
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Then that's when he saw it. Subtle, barely noticeable, but unmistakably there. Gi-hun had twitched. He stopped, turning back around and kneeling down to his level. He gently removed his glove, then slowly placed two fingers on the pulse point of his neck.
Yes.
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Gi-hun doesn’t die in the last game, and In-ho does everything in his power to save him.